Heeling-machine



(No Model.)

A. -E. ELLIS.

8 HBBLING MAGHINE, 8 No. 388,544. Patented Aug. 28, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE,

ADELBERT E. ELLIS, OF LAWRENCE, ASSIGNOB TO JAMES W. BROOKS, TRUSTEE, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

HEELlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,544, dated August 28, 1888.

Application filed March 10, 1888. Serial No. 266,859. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADELBERT E. ELLIs, of Lawrence, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Heeling-Machines, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

- In machines for nailing and trimming heels, of which class of machines the so-called Mc- Kay and Bigelow isa type, the nail-box, upon the top of which is pivoted the usual toplil't plate, has a rod fixed to it, which enters the hollow shank of a drivel-plate, the latter resting immediately above the usual trimmerlever, the shank of the driver-plate being connected with a rising and falling spindle. The driver-plate referred to also has located upon it a fixed pin, which enters a hole in the nailbox, the said hole being more or less distant from the rod attached to the nail-box. The shape or contour of the nail-box and its top or pattern plate varies materially, they having to be shaped to correspond with the particular shape of the heel to be trimmed, and hence very many nail-boxes have to be employed with each machine. In practice each particular shape and size of nail-box has to have a particular driver-plate to work with it, because of the fixed pin erected upon the driverplate. The object of my invention is to obviate the employment of a great number of driver-plates, and this I have done by making the pin referred to adjustable with relation to the driver-plate, so that one driver-plate with a movable pin may be employed with many sizes and shapes of nail-box.

My invention consists, essentially, in the combination, with the nail-box having a rod and hole and a driver-plate, of a guide-pin adjustably connected to the driver-plate to enter the hole in the nail-box, as will be described.

Figure 1 inside elevation represents a nailbox and its shank and top-lift plate, the said driver-plate having a movable guide-pin embodying my invention, the shank of the driverplate being broken out in the drawings. Fig. 2 is a top view of the driver-plate with the adjustable guide-pin; Fig. 3, a section of Fig. 2

in the linex w; and Fig. 4 shows an under side view of the nail-box.

The driverplate d, its sleeve-like shank e,

the top-lift plate a, pivoted in usual manner upon the nail-box c, and the rod Z, fixed to the nail-box and extended down into the shank c of the driver-plate, and the top plate, I), of the nail-box, are all substantially as in common use upon the machine referred to.

Viewing Fig. 4, it will be noticed that the nail-box has ahole, n, at some distance from the rod 1. In practice the rod 1 is attached to the nail-box nearly at the center of the box, no matter what may be the size of the box, that depending upon the size of the heel. The nailbox has to be held in such manner upon the driver-plate as not to be twisted aside when the nail-box is lifted above the driverplate by the usual spring, which acts upon the end of the rod Z. In practice the hole a in the nail-box varies as to its distance from the rod 1, according to the size and shape of the nailbox, that depending upon the size and shape .of the heel to be trimmed.

When the rod Z is fixed and the hole n in the box varies as to its distance from the rod Z, then the box must have cooperating with it a driver-plate in which the shank 6 shall be and by so doing the guide-pin may be madeto enter the hole n in the nail-box, no matter what may be the size and shape of the nail-box.

As herein represented, the guide-pin f has a dovetailed foot, y, somewhat elongated, which slides in a correspondingly-shaped groove in the nail-box, and, as herein shown, each end of the foot is made concave to fit against the rod Z when inserted in the shank e, and the foot may be inserted either end first into its guideway, according to the particular position justable guide-pin connected to the. said plate, required for the guide-pin.

substantially as described. I clain1 In testimony whereofI have signed my name 1. The combination, with a nail-box having to this specification in the presence of two sub- 5 a rod and hole and a driver-plate, of a guide scribing Witnesses.

pin adjustably connected to the driver-plate to enter the hole in the nail-box, substantially as ADELBERT ELLIS described. 7 Witnesses:

2. In a nail-box, the combination, with a G. VQGREGORY,

IO driver-plate having a tubular shank, of an ad- J. O. SEARS. 

